to brush

Определение to brush в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: To untangle or arrange with a brush
Brush your hair.; To apply with a brush
Brush the paint onto the walls.; Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees; A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary and rotating parts of a machine; To touch with a sweeping motion
Maybe you will find a love that you discover accidentally, who falls against you gently as a pickpocket brushes your thigh.; In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play area; An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair; The act of brushing something
She gave her hair a quick brush.; The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino; Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export, usually for use in wreathmaking; To clean with a brush
Brush your teeth.; To remove with a sweeping motion
Brush the flour off your clothes.; An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals; The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox; clean with a brush; "She brushed the suit before hanging it back into the closet"; {v} to rub wish a brush, strike slightly, skim; {n} a hairy instrument, brisk attack, tail, shrubs, lopped branches of trees; A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience; A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair. We gave him paint and brushes Stains are removed with buckets of soapy water and scrubbing brushes. a hair brush; To apply a liquid, like a glaze, to the surface of food using a pastry brush; an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle; A metal or carbon block used to make contact with a rotating part, such as the armature, of a generator or motor; with a brush; Brush is an area of rough open land covered with small bushes and trees. You also use brush to refer to the bushes and trees on this land. the brush fire that destroyed nearly 500 acres. a meadow of low brush and grass. = bush see also broad-brush, nail brush; If you brush something with a liquid, you apply a layer of that liquid using a brush. Take a sheet of filo pastry and brush it with melted butter; remove with or as if with a brush; "brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections"; A small rectangular piece of conductive metal that makes contact with the commutator inside an electric motor; If one thing brushes against another or if you brush one thing against another, the first thing touches the second thing lightly while passing it. Something brushed against her leg I felt her dark brown hair brushing the back of my shoulder She knelt and brushed her lips softly across Michael's cheek; To apply a brush to, according to its particular use; to rub, smooth, clean, paint, etc; To touch in passing, or to pass lightly over, as with a brush; A bushy or plume-like tail of a longhaired cat; An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc; conductor between the commutator and the external circuit of a brushed DC motor; The brush is used, in basic graphics functions, for filling areas drawn with the shape primitives, and also for text background fills; The free leg moves forward or back with the sole of the foot brushing the floor as it moves; To move nimbly in haste; to move so lightly as scarcely to be perceived; as, to brush by; manual paint application tool composed of bristles set into a handle; A collective term that refers to stands of vegetation dominated by shrubby, woody plants, or low growing trees, usually of a type undesirable for livestock or timber management; Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood; a dense growth of bushes; A collective term that refers to stands of vegetation dominated by shrubbery, woody plants, or low growing trees, usually of a type undesirable for livestock or timber management; A bitmap that is used to fill the interior of closed shapes, polygons, ellipses, and paths; touch lightly and briefly; "He brushed the wall lightly"; vagueness If you have a brush with someone, you have an argument or disagreement with them. You use brush when you want to make an argument or disagreement sound less serious than it really is. My first brush with a headmaster came six years ago It is his third brush with the law in less than a year; Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc; rub with a brush, or as if with a brush; "Johnson brushed the hairs from his jacket"; A cardroom employee responsible for managing the seating list is sometimes called the brush; a minor short-term fight; The tail of a fox; Small trees and shrubs; a minor short-term fight an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor momentary contact a dense growth of bushes remove with or as if with a brush; "brush away the crumbs"; "brush the dust from the jacket"; "brush aside the objections"; sweep across or over; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience"; The bushy tail of a fox; The act of brushing; as, to give one's clothes a brush; a rubbing or grazing with a quick motion; a light touch; as, we got a brush from the wheel as it passed; A short contest, or trial, of speed; An implement with a handle, and a head with multiple more or less flexible bristles, used for any of various purposes including cleaning, painting, and arranging hair; the act of brushing your teeth; "the dentist recommended two brushes a day"; The tail of a fox or squirrel, which is brushy Brush away Get along Brush off Move on He brushed by me He just touched me as he went quickly past Hence also brush, a slight skirmish All these are metaphors from brushing with a brush Give it another brush A little more attention; bestow a little more labour on it; return it to the file for a little more polish; {i} tool with bristles and a handle; act of brushing; scuffle, small fight; foxtail; thicket; A type of device used to sweep the ice in the path of the stone and may be manufactured with hog's hair, horse hair or synthetic fibers/materials; sweep across or over; "Her long skirt brushed the floor"; "A gasp swept cross the audience; A type of bitmap which is used to fill an area Brushes are usually 8x8 pixel images, forming either a solid color or a pattern Back; A brush is made of a handle, a metal ferrule, and hair The quality of the hair determines the brush’s quality and cost Each type of brush has a specific purpose, and different fibers are used for different mediums; the tool used to apply paint to a surface, often consisting of a gathering of bristles held together by a ferrule attached to a handle The bristles may come from hairs of a variety of animals including boar, squirrel and badger as well as synthetic Red sable hairs are often considered the finest Different shapes are desirable for different paint types and techniques; {f} comb or polish with a brush; touch; rub against; pass by; A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush; If you brush something somewhere, you remove it with quick light movements of your hands. He brushed his hair back with both hands He brushed the snow off the windshield; momentary contact; If you brush past someone or brush by them, you almost touch them as you go past them. My father would burst into the kitchen, brushing past my mother; If you have a brush with a particular situation, usually an unpleasant one, you almost experience it. the trauma of a brush with death The corporation is fighting to survive its second brush with bankruptcy. = encounter